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Visual Studio.NET allows you to set a property that makes your application a single-instance application, where double-clicking the icon while the app is running simply brings the already-running app to the foreground. But what if you wanted the...
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No, this post isn’t a rant on consumerism and lack of true holiday spirit. I have another blog for that. This is my programming blog. I was thinking hard about what I could post to close out the year. It doesn’t seem much has been...
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Remember that little idea that Office had a while ago that would hide infrequently-used menu items? Wasn’t that a great idea? For me, it was the very first thing I turned off after installing Office. But I do understand what they were...
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No, I certainly can’t help you get dates or have successful dates. But I can offer a couple of functions that might help you work with dates in your code. I suck at dates (all types). Every time I want to calculate dates, I need to print...
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I had something that I thought was a simple task and got the solution for it, but when I researched it, I didn’t see a whole lot of other people talking about it. Actually, in my brief searches, I didn’t see anyone talking about it. So here...
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I recently had a little piece of SQL code that I thought I would post and it reminded me of something I did a long time ago (5 yrs) and thought I'd write something on it. Anyway, first here's the little piece without much celebration. This...
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It was asked of me once: Why isn't my "please wait" form doing anything? The form had an animation, but the animation never moved. The main form code would show the "please wait" form, run some code, then hide the "please...
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It's nice that .NET controls have an auto-size property so you don't have to worry about overflow and all. But what about cases where you have a fixed layout? Well, that's simple, you turn autosize off and fix the control to the...
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When binding business objects to a datagrid, often you have a need to display some information that is not directly exposed by the object itself. Maybe it's a calculated value, maybe it's something nested deeper in the object. When...
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Here's another little snip of code I couldn't find online when I needed it. Geez, when I became a programmer, I wasn't thinking I'd have to actually figure things out on my own. That's a lot of work. Anyway, the problem...
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I was thinking of that interesting little pocket game, 20Q, where the game knows so many words and is able to figure out what word you're thinking of in 20 questions. For the most part, it's not too bad. It must really be pretty complex...
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This is a quick little bit of code that I made up after unsuccessfully finding anyone else that had done it. What I wanted to do is take an original image, and skew it so it looked like it was going off into the distance. That gives it perspective...
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A really great book with some timeless information is Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows. One of the things that I got out of it, implicitly or explicitly, is the need for user feedback. And I started making it a higher priority in my applications...
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I guess this might be kind of a belated rant... some will know what i'm talking about. At a previous job, we had a need to log stuff: errors, debug info, etc. We were given an API by the upper programmers and it was, shall we say, less than excellent...
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Here's a thought I had a couple of days ago. I actually was almost done with this blog entry yesterday, but ended up closing the window and not saving any of it. Argh. My thought was on sql sorting. There are times when you want to have your results...
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